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Every single person has secrets.
But what you want are that those secrets
are actually good ones.
And how sweet is that secret good deed
that you meet Allah with on the day of judgment,
and you know that it was just this goodness
between you and Him, that no one else knew about.
Imagine how pleased Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is with that deed.
"Sadaqatul sihr tutfi' ghathab al-rab"
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salaam said,
"Secret charity extinguishes the anger of your Lord."
And how pleased are you going to be
when Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la brings that up
in His conversation with you?
Like, "Ya 'abdi, oh my slave,
I remember that moment of prayer, that charity,
that good thing that you did for me
and you didn't tell anyone else about
and now here's my gift back to you."
Now, on the other hand, there's also this fear
that the believer has of secret sins.
We might be struggling with something in private
and we're trying to overcome it
but death comes to us and we still haven't been able
to completely stop those sins.
We keep repenting but somehow we keep on repeating.
So what happens on the day of judgment
when you meet Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
and those books are laid in front of you
and nothing is concealed any longer?
Allah is going to forgive people on the day of judgment
with a forgiveness that no person has ever been able
to conceive or imagine.
(ethereal music)
And here you are in the most critical moments
of your standing before Allah,
and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la unveils 99 scrolls
of your sins, each one of them to the end of your vision.
Now, by the way, this is the believer
not the hypocrite, okay?
Every single one of us has some scroll of sin
and it's right in front of you
and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la simply puts it out
in front of you.
And the messenger of Allah,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"ma minkum min ahad illa sayukalim-ahu Rabuh
laysa bayn-ahu wabayn-ahu tarjuman"
"There is not a single person amongst you
except that His Lord is going to speak
to him directly without any intermediary or any translator."
And so, as you're standing there
and Allah is addressing you,
and you've got those scrolls in front of you,
the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
"fa-yanthuru 'an aymana minhu fala yara illa shayin qadamahu
"So he looks to his right
to see if there's anyone or anything
that's going to come to his aid.
But all he sees are deeds that he put forward.
There's no one else there.
And then he looks to his left.
"fala yara illa shayin qadamahu"
And the only thing he sees on his left
are deeds that he sent forth."
And then the prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"Then he looks ahead,
"fa-tastaqbilhu al-nar"
and he sees the fire facing him."
Now for the hypocrite who knows that this is not going
to end well, that his book is about to come to his left hand
and he's effectively doomed, what does he do?
He puts his left hand behind his back.
And that's why Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says
that he receives his book "bi-shimalihi"
in his left hand.
In one place in the Quran, Allah say "bi-shimalihi",
and in another place Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says,
"min waraa' thahrih"
behind his back, why?
Because as he puts his left hand behind his back,
a chain comes and locks his left hand behind his back.
And then the book comes to his left hand,
locked in that position behind his back.
And anyone that is walking behind him
can see the shame of that person on that day.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la protect us.
So both the questioning and the humiliation
for that person are public.
But Allah isn't interested
in humiliating the sincere believer.
Abdullah ibn Omar, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma
He was asked, he said,
"What did the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam say
about an-Najwaa, the private conversation?"
And realize that the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said, when you go into Salah,
when you go into prayer, you are in Najwaa,
you're in a secret dialogue with your Lord.
So ibn Omar is being asked,
what did the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
say about the Najwaa on the day of judgment,
the secret dialogue.
And the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"yudna al mu'mimnu yawm al-qiyamati min Rabihi"
hata yatha' 'alayhi kanafahu"
"Allah brings forth the believer
very near to him on the day of judgment,
and then Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la "places his veil
over him" and his veil is a veil of light.
So you're now close to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and it's just you and Him,
and no one else is hearing this conversation.
Allah is making this part of the Hisab private.
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says,
"You see these secret sins,
these sins that you weren't proud of
and people didn't know about,
"hal ta'rif?"
oh my servant, do you acknowledge these sins?"
And the believer will say,
"ay Rabi a'rif"
"My Lord, I acknowledge them.
I'm not trying to run away.
I'm not trying to deny anything.
I'm not trying to say I don't accept any witnesses.
I'm not going to praise myself.
Ya Rab, I failed in this regard.
I messed up and I wasn't proud of it.
It's not something I would boast about,
but Ya Rab, I acknowledge these things."
So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la then says to His servant,
"fa inni qad satar-tuha 'alayka fil dunya
wa inni agfiruha lak al-yawm"
"I concealed those sins for you in this world
and today, I'm going to forgive you for them.
They're all gone."
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"He's given his record of good deeds
and the sins have been obliterated."
In one narration, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said, "in the place of every sayiah,
in the place of every sin
that you sought forgiveness for
there is now a hassanah,
there is now a good deed to the point that the servant says,
"Ya Rab, my Lord, there are things that I don't see here,
sins that I committed that I don't see here."
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam smiled so broadly
as he was narrating this conversation to us
that his back teeth could be seen,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
at the mercy of his Lord.
And this is what the scholars say
is the Tafsir of when Allah Azawajal mentions
that the believer receives his book in his right hand
and then he goes back to the gathering and he says,
"haumu iq'rau kitabiyah"
"Everyone come read my book
because that book doesn't have those sins anymore.
Everyone come read my book,
"inni thanantu anni mulaqin hisabiyah"
I knew that this day was coming,
I knew that I was going to be held accountable
and I prepared myself for this day."
And he's going through the gathering,
"Look at this good deed.
Look at that good deed."
No one is being humble on that day
when they receive their book in their right hand,
you're not trying to hide it away and say,
"Alhamdulillah, things are okay."
No, you're going around and saying,
"Here it is.
Here is the Salah, here is the Sadaqah,
here are the places that I went to of good
when I was called to go to places of evil.
Here are the words that I said,
here's the backbiting I refused to partake in,
but instead contested when I heard it.
Here are all of these good deeds,
look, it's here, look, it's here."
And you're celebrating and celebrating
and celebrating the mercy of your Lord upon you.
And SubhanAllah as you are going around with that book
and you are running around to the various people
and showing off your good deeds
from that moment that you just had
with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
One thing that I think about
is the connection of that to the very first person
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam told us
was questioned, the very first person who was questioned.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says to him, "Didn't you think
that you were going to meet me?
Weren't you ready for this meeting?"
And that person wasn't ready.
This person can make one claim in that gathering.
He can say, "inni thanantu anni mulaqin hisabiyah",
"I knew this moment was coming.
I was ready for this moment."
And so as you're going around,
ask yourself, who are you going to run to
in that gathering?
Your parents, your Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
or someone else to celebrate your graduation
to the next phase of the gift.
"fa-amma man thaqulat mawazinuhu
fahuwa fi 'ishatin radiyah"
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